South Range board to redo appointment of member

NORTH LIMA — The South Range Board of Education will go back through the school board appointment process Tuesday.

The school district’s lawyer, John Britton, said today that recently appointed board member Amy White is resigning and that her resignation, and discussion of the process to fill that vacancy, will be discussed at a special board meeting at 7 tonight at the board’s office, 11300 S. Columbiana-Canfield Road.

“They are going to redo their application process and follow their policy more closely,” Britton said.

The Vindicator’s lawyer, David Marburger, said the South Range Local School District violated the state’s Sunshine Laws when it voted to appoint White to its board March 16.

“A public body may not take any formal action, such as voting or otherwise reaching a collective decision, in an executive session. Any formal action taken in an executive session is invalid,” Ohio Sunshine Laws state.

A metallic gold-and-black nameplate already had been made for her before the vote took place in public.

Atty. Marburger said that nameplate was “just the clearest evidence. ... The most-troubling part is what that represents. That represents that the decision was already made.”

Britton argued that a consensus developed in executive session among peers talking about candidates is not a violation of Sunshine Laws.

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